Alabama Beer Alcohol Limit Law -- Extended!

Free The Hops, an organization created to lobby for better beer in Alabama, has succeeded:

It used to be 6% for beer. A fucking travesty now inverted in the name of Change.

Excuse me, I'm going to go enjoy all the new imports.

Increasing the alcohol percentage doesn't make beer better, it just takes fewer to not care that you're drinking Budweiser.

They don't make Budweiser with content that high.

Your comment, while internally logical, does not take into account the reality of the situation.

Anything that has a higher content than "ice" beer is very likely a well-crafted ale or even a barley wine. Sure, there are some dogs, but in the vast majority of cases it will, in fact, mean that you're drinking "better" beer.

As both a counter-example and an example, however, take Great Lakes Brewing. (Cleveland, Ohio) Almost their entire range of great-tasting beers check in under 6%. One that does not, Nosferatu, comes in at (I believe) 7.9, but it also happens to be, in my opinion, the best beer that Great Lakes makes.

Then he should have made that point. It wasn't clear at all that he was talking about drinking two different kinds of beers.

That's all one if we're only talking about getting shit-faced. (Also not clear from the post in question.) But I feel as if the OP is talking about enjoying good beer, and, as I pointed out, one will find that imports and micro-brews will more likely have in their offerings higher alcohol content (and actually be better beer) so the issue is Alabama putting undue strictures on good beer.

Either way, the comment about Budweiser was poorly constructed and executed, and I've come to expect more from mydogfarted. I'm now laughing to myself after typing that sentence and inputting his username.

I would disagree and suggest Christmas Ale (7.5%) is more delicious.

I rest my case.

Sorry... brain is fuzzy. Yeah, I meant the "cheap drunk" situation. Spend money on the good stuff for the first beer or two where you can actually taste it, and by the 4th you could be drinking Shlitz and think it's as good as that brilliant bock or hearty stout you started with.

Forgive me... java code is rotting my brain.

Nah, I know it won't magically appear, but I have been playing phone tag all day with the owner of my favorite pub. He's buried under order requests from his patrons. I just want him to order a case of Viking Gylltur.



Or some Koff.

An interesting potential wrinkle here is that despite the state limit being overturned, customers will still have to deal with the bizarre and truly Byzantine process of beer distribution here in the States. It's completely unreal when you start looking at which breweries can sell their wares in specific states or regions, and which can't.

The only Great Lakes that I never feel like drinking is Dortmunder Gold. I think the rest are great, and I still think DG is good, it's just not my kind of beer. GL Christmas Ale is astoundingly good, and you can probably get it on tap right now, huh? NICE.

I try to drink this when in Toronto and not at a strip club, but it can be very hard to find.

Do you know the answer to the riddle of why one can only find "Molson Export" in Canada? Some have conjectured it's what plain ol' "Molson" is in the States, but that's definitely not true, or apparently crossing the border completely changes what Molson tastes like.

It's a weird quirky beer mystery that has haunted me for over a decade.

No, let me apologize. Superfluous work and school arguments have been seeping into my "fun-time" arguments, and my post above in response to lil_tuffy was bitchy.

It's not a behavior I or anyone I know has indulged in, but it makes sense. "Cheap drunk" for me was buying Steel Reserve and a cheap stogie or two, back when I still smoked tobacco. Damn does that shit taste nasty without smoke.

Not anywhere I go. You can't imagine how fast it goes. As I understand it, bars order their entire season's stock when it first becomes available or they can't get any. If you don't order enough, yr s.o.l. I wonder if there's any money to be made buying a couple kegs and sitting on them until January...

Anecdotally: my favorite microbrewery's year round beers aren't very alcoholic.


4.4%

You can find it at the liquor store, but I bet it's pretty rare to see a bar outside of Quebec that carries Unibroue.

Quebec rules.

Well, not to get in the middle of weird ethno-social culture debate here, but you're incorrect. Tons of Toronto bars have it. I need to go to the store in Toronto to get Fin du Monde, but that's okay. It's a good idea not to get too pished in a Toronto (or Quebec City!) strip club, which is where I drink the big (quart?) bottles of Molson Export but sloooooooooooooowly.

But, my friend, I believe you missed my larger question: Why can I only find Molson EXPORT when I'm IN Canada, and can't ever find it in the United States?

Yeah, I don't frequent Toronto bars, but that's cool they do.

No idea.

That one had never occurred to me and I used to tend bar. Whacky beer mysteries.

happily enough, it's actually not that rare at all. i've become a fan of quite a few of their beers at bars here in Chicago... they've been carrying them for a long time around here - in bottles and on tap.

To a point, sure, it'll be cheaper. But some of those beers with a higher alcohol content can get damn expensive. They're usually imports though. The domestically brewed ones are usually just as good, and not nearly as hard on the wallet.

i think you're missing the point.